At Stay Beautiful last night, Simon Price played a theme set. Songs of two minutes duration or less. Nothing over 2 minutes. Afterwards he is exhausted. As soon as one song is running, there's barely enough time to get rid of the previous tune on the other machine, put it away, get out the next one and cue it up in time. But he managed it.
Me: Nice to hear "Shakespear's Sister" by The Smiths, but isn't that 2:09 (I'd been reading that Simon Goddard book), and therefore too long?
SP: Yes. I had to cheat a little by speeding it up slightly so it became 2.00.
Me: Why didn't you stick the set on two specially prepared CDRs to make it easier?
SP: Oh no! That would have been cheating.
